Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. 1900–1919; 3. 1919–1934; 4. 1934–1940; 5. 1940–1947; 6. 1947–1963; 7. 1963–1975; 8. Some tentative conclusions; 9. Presidential power and European cabinets in the conduct of international relations and diplomacy; a contrast; 10. Britain, America and Indo-China, 1942–1945; 11. American anti-colonialist policies and the end of the European colonial empires, 1941–1962.

Promotional Information

This book is based on the Wiles lectures for 1981 delivered at the Queen's University of Belfast in October 1981.